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Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For In 2009

By JR
Published on: 01:46 PST, Jan 22, 2009

Fortune Magazine has released its annual “Fortune 100” list of the best companies to work for in 2009. Most of the companies currently have job openings and are hiring, too.

Taking the top spot from Google this year is data storage and management company NetApp. Google dropped to #4.

Debuting on the list for the first time is online retailer Zappos, a company that’s made many headlines for its advanced tech-friendly marketing strategies.

Other tech companies making the Fortune 100 include Adobe (#11), Qualcomm (#16), Microsoft (#38), and eBay (#83).

The full list is below.

Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For

Rank	Company	Job growth	U.S. employees
1	NetApp	12%	5,014
2	Edward Jones	9%	34,496
3	Boston Consulting Group	10%	1,680
4	Google	40%	12,580
5	Wegmans Food Markets	6%	37,195
6	Cisco Systems	7%	37,123
7	Genentech	5%	10,969
8	Methodist Hospital System	1%	10,535
9	Goldman Sachs	2%	14,088
10	Nugget Market	22%	1,536
11	Adobe Systems	9%	4,255
12	Recreational Equipment (REI)	11%	9,780
13	Devon Energy	11%	3,752
14	Robert W. Baird	4%	2,184
15	W. L. Gore Associates	5%	5,481
16	Qualcomm	19%	11,932
17	Principal Financial Group	-1%	13,343
18	Shared Technologies	12%	1,568
19	OhioHealth	7%	11,858
20	SAS	5%	5,381
21	Arnold Porter	3%	1,296
22	Whole Foods Market	22%	51,967
23	Zappos.com	39%	1,655
24	Starbucks	-6%	146,700
25	Johnson Financial Group	4%	1,300
26	Aflac	1%	4,493
27	QuikTrip	33%	10,159
28	PCL Construction Enterprises	24%	4,420
29	Quicken Loans	-41%	2,890
30	Bingham McCutchen	-2%	1,605
31	CarMax	14%	16,107
32	Container Store	4%	3,286
33	JM Family Enterprises	-1%	4,577
34	Umpqua Bank	-4%	1,707
35	Kimley-Horn Associates	-8%	2,190
36	Alston Bird	7%	1,718
37	TDIndustries	7%	1,713
38	Microsoft	15%	55,237
39	Paychex	5%	12,207
40	EOG Resources	30%	1,803
41	Camden Property Trust	-1%	1,849
42	Plante Moran	4%	1,558
43	Rackspace Hosting	59%	1,992
44	NuStar Energy	23%	1,319
45	King’s Daughters Medical Cntr.	4%	3,041
46	American Fidelity Assurance	10%	1,509
47	DreamWorks Animation SKG	18%	1,614
48	Mattel	N.A.%	5,552
49	Intuit	0%	7,637
50	Burns McDonnell	16%	2,840
51	Ernst Young	0%	26,090
52	Booz Allen Hamilton	9%	19,243
53	Stew Leonard’s	-2%	2,219
54	Erickson Retirement Communities	18%	10,871
55	Salesforce.com	24%	1,958
56	KPMG	7%	24,442
57	Novo Nordisk	11%	3,053
58	PricewaterhouseCoopers	-2%	29,144
59	Scripps Health	6%	10,374
60	Scottrade	25%	1,946
61	Deloitte	7%	38,903
62	Griffin Hospital	-2%	1,143
63	Mayo Clinic	3%	41,955
64	Milliken	-6%	8,150
65	Texas Instruments	-4%	14,379
66	MITRE	6%	6,420
67	Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta	8%	5,850
68	Southern Ohio Medical Center	4%	2,188
69	National Instruments	8%	2,527
70	Stanley	65%	4,590
71	Men’s Wearhouse	-1%	16,477
72	Nordstrom	-8%	49,236
73	Chesapeake Energy	23%	6,850
74	Alcon Laboratories	5%	7,160
75	Atlantic Health System	2%	6,968
76	Lehigh Valley Hospital Health Network	6%	8,897
77	Northwest Community Hospital	-3%	3,372
78	Marriott International	2%	124,247
79	Baptist Health South Florida	9%	10,641
80	Bright Horizons	-1%	14,437
81	S.C. Johnson Son	-1%	3,368
82	Perkins Coie	3%	1,696
83	eBay	9%	9,089
84	Juniper Networks	15%	3,743
85	Arkansas Children’s Hospital	6%	3,527
86	CH2M HILL	14%	19,011
87	Orrick Herrington Sutcliffe	8%	1,609
88	Publix Super Markets	3%	141,314
89	Herman Miller	-7%	5,646
90	FedEx	-1%	233,457
91	Gilbane	12%	2,169
92	Four Seasons Hotels	4%	13,401
93	Valero Energy	-4%	16,881
94	Build-A-Bear Workshop	2%	4,886
95	Kimpton Hotels Restaurants	4%	6,298
96	T-Mobile	12%	39,822
97	Accenture	7%	32,318
98	Vanderbilt University	5%	21,041
99	General Mills	-1%	17,018
100	SRA International	21%	6,266